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That aside, this isn't really a killer app. It is much easier to adjust an image in the Gimp or Photoshop than it is to do so in Mathematica. If you are doing image processing, it might be nice to have that available in Mathematica, but it is equally easy to transform images in your $FAVORITE_PROGRAMMING_LANGUAGE.



Don't think "image processing", think "signals processing." The ability to perform complex interactive transforms on datasets representable as images is actually pretty neat.


I doubt Mathematica lets you do anything that competing products like Matlab's image processing toolkit don't do, it just greatly enhances the level of activity associated with image processing.


Still, you are dealing directly with a programming language (akin to Lisp, but in M-form) instead of set of buttons, sliders, etc.

This simply means, that whatever type you can recreate it in other programming environment.


Photoshop has a pretty powerful scripting environment (JavaScript) but it's rather unwieldy for doing image processing and analysis. I know from experience... http://tlrobinson.net/blog/2008/10/08/recovering-censored-te...




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